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Staying stoic in the agony: Robert Cooper reflects on emotion of tight defeat

Staying stoic

Robert Cooper reflects on emotion of tight defeat – and a Sweet Reward

The Agony and the Ecstasy. Irving Stone’s classic novel could quite feasibly have been written about the kick-start of the latest Flat turf season rather than its intended subject Michelangelo.
I’m aware that painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling can’t have been a cakewalk, but the comparison pales when your horse is beaten by a nose in the ‘Brocklesby’ – the opening race of the new campaign. Potential ecstasy thwarted by drilling agony.
I haven’t mentioned, intentionally anyway, the Old Stoic Racing Club for a few months;...

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